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T.'HK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 24, 
Who Is Green ? 
We’ll tell you: For 15 years 
Charles A. Green was a banker 
at Rochester, N. Y. In 1874 he 
retired to a run-down farm 
near Rochester and began 
fruit growing. His success, 
not alone in growingfruit,but 
in teaching fruit growing, has 
been remarkable. He has 
added millions to the wealth 
of this country. At present he 
is growing over 100 varieties 
of apples alone, besides 
many varieties of other 
fruits — large and small — 
without which the public ex¬ 
hibitions at our state fairs would not be complete. 
34 years ago he established the nationally knownmonthly 
magazine— Green's Fruit Grower —which now has about 
125,000 subscribers. This valuable publication is of vital 
importance to every fruit grower—tells justwhere, when 
and how to grow fruit. Subscription price is 50c a year 
—three years for $1.00. Green’s book, “How I Made the 
Old Farm Pay, ’ ’ free with subscription. Sample copy of 
Green’s Fruit Groiver free to you. Write today. 
Green’s Fruit Grower Publishing Co. 
Box 303, Rochester, N. Y. 
GREAT DANE OATS 
Often yield 80 to 100 bushels per acre. Heads are 
large, kernels have thin shuck and heavy meat. 
Of beautiful golden yellow color and fine qual¬ 
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on account of which it seldom lodges. 
Blue Mountain Ensilage Corn 
Produce* mammoth yields of high quality 
forage. Earlier than ordinary ensilage. We 
offer extra selected seed. 
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Fully illustrates and descriliesall on-pedigreed 
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Hardy Persian Walnuts 
My hardy PENNSYLVANIA 
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The Nut Tree Specialist 
LANCASTER, PA. 
h IffcViBlackberry 
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and is very large, being almost as thick through 
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bear heavily every year. In the winter of 1911- 
12 every Blackberry in my trial grounds 
was damaged more or less except, the JOY , 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
NORWAY SPRUCE. 
I send some leaves or spikes of a tree 
which some call Norway spruce and some 
Norway pine. Can you tell me the true 
name. They had some seed spikes like 
our pine which I would like to plant and 
would like information how to plant and 
whether they grow in our locality? 
Tylersville, Pa. J. S. B. 
The twig sent is the Norway spruce, 
Picea excelsa. This is one of the most 
beautiful standard evergreens, hardy, a 
rapid grower, adaptable to many soils 
and climates, and of elegant pointed form, 
often with drooping branchlets. It is 
propagated by seeds without difficulty, 
seeds ripening in Fall. Conifer seeds call 
for a mellow seed-bed, the seed being 
usually sown in May, but where a small 
quantity is to be sown, it is a good plan 
to sow in boxes. The plan used in such 
cases at the Arnold Arboretum is to sow 
the seed (which is not covered more than 
one-fourth inch) in well-drained boxes 
as soon as ripe, pile boxes four or five 
deep in a sheltered place, cover with 
boards, and when weather becomes severe 
add a covering of hay. About the mid¬ 
dle of April move boxes to where they 
get the morning sun, keep them weeded 
and watered, and shade through the 
Summer with lath screens. Winter the 
seedlings in the boxes, covered as before, 
and transplant into rows in good well- 
tilled soil the next Spring, when they 
are making the first or second set of rough 
leaves. 
Hemp Cultivation in California. 
I am engaged in raising hemp in Cali¬ 
fornia; am sowing, or going to sow, 200 
acres in 1914. I have been engaged in 
that pursuit since 1S74, and up to 1S90 
all in Illinois. In 1S96 I came to Cali¬ 
fornia, and continued to raise hemp up 
to the present time. Just now I have 
found an ideal place here, for the busi¬ 
ness. Even although the rainfall is mea¬ 
ger. we are in a situation where we can 
syphon water from the San Joaquin Riv¬ 
er, into ouiv hemp field, over 20-feet levee, 
and irrigate the crop, all Summer, our 
“rainless Summers.” With irrigation and 
a little nitrate of soda, 100 pounds every 
year, we can raise close to 2000 pounds 
on an acre of fibre on good land. We 
let the rains, and river or tule fog rot the 
hemp in the Winter. So when we take 
the rotted hemp stalks off the land all 
or nearly all fertility in the hemp has 
been washed back into the soil where the 
hemp grew. Thus we require very little 
rotation in crops. Our soil is all peat, 
rotten tule roots and stalks, etc. The 
peat is very porous so that a small ditch 
nine inches wide and a foot deep every 
80 feet supplies water to the hemp; a 
little water runs’ in all the ditches all 
the time until nearly cutting time, which 
is about October 1. A crop 10 feet high 
takes a lot of water in a Summer. 
We have a good market in Oakland. 
Cal. The California cotton mills could 
consume 4,000 tons if they could get it, 
so they say. I run the hemp stalks 
when dry, after being rotted, through a 
mill of my own invention at the rate of 
getting 2.500 pounds fibre per day. Hemp 
fibre is now worth $150 per 2.000 pounds 
fibre delivered at mill, or $105 delivered 
in New York. j. H. 
“ Jersey Red” Soil. 
What is the composition of the soil 
which ic so commonly met with in New 
Jersey, and referred to as “Jersey red?” 
I have been told that this soil is not the 
most desirable for agricultural purposes, 
and that crops such as roots and tubers, 
cannot be successfully grown in this red 
ground. A. A. 
Jamaica, N. Y. 
Soil commonly known as “Jersey red” 
is a red shale or heavy red clay soil 
which is underlaid with red shale. It is 
found in New Jersey in a part of Mid¬ 
dlesex and Somerset counties. It is 
especially adapted to the growing of hay, 
corn and forage crops. Apples seem to 
do fairly well on it, .<nd in fact many 
crops are raised oh it with success on 
the College Farm in New Brunswick. 
Alfalfa has been raised for a number 
of years on well-drained fields of this type 
of soil. If some green manure, such as 
clover, rye and vetch, etc., are plowed 
under and the soil is given a liberal ap¬ 
plication of ground limestone, which will 
grow root crops, the texture of the soil 
can be improved to serve as a suitable 
environment for almost any crop. 
A. L. C. 
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Grow quicker and lugger crops of Alfalfa, Clover, Soy Beans, Peas, and all 
legumes, by inoculating your seed with 
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A composite culture of bacteria, which takes nitrogen from the air, converts it 
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on barren ground; improve* crops on good soil. 
Nitrogen is the most necessary elemotit for plant food. It insures bigger 
better and more profitable crops. Better returns in dollars and cents and 
better nutrition for your stock. 
Be prepared in time for spring plants, order now. Bacteria for one acre $2.00; 
five acres $ 0 . 01 ). Agents wanted in communities not already allotted. Semi 
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HOMEWOOD NITROGEN CO. 
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159. 
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Raspberry Plants from Belle Meade Nurseries 
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St. Regi* {Red). Sets fruit on new canes. 
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A. H. HOFFMAN, • Box 30, Landisville, Pa. 
Do You Have to 
be Shown?_ 
I’m told that I have the best 
quality of seed, give the largest 
packages and have the most com¬ 
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I also have guaranteed Clover and Al¬ 
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samples of these also? 
HEtNRY FIELD, Pres. 
HENRY FIELD SEED CO.. Bn 26, Shenandoah. Iowa. 
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■—FOR 1914 IS READY . 
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In the center 
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NURSERY STOCK IN BARGAIN LOTS 
The following bargain lots should be ordered by number. We pay freight or express to any 
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No. 1—$5.00, 
100 Elberta Peach, 2-3 feet, one year from bud- 
2 Black Beauty Plum. 
No. 2—$7.00. 
100 Elberta Peach, 3-4 feet. 
10 Carman Peach 
No 3—$10 00. 
200 Peach, one year, 2-3 feet. 
120 Elberta. 20 Champion. 
20 Early Crawford 20 Carman. 
20 Late Crawford. 
10 Montmorency Cherry, 2-3 feet. 
No. 4—$10.00, 
100 Poach, 4-5 feet, first class 
60 Elberta.* 10 Champion. 
10 Carman. 20 Late Crawford. 
10 Montmorency Cherry, 3-4 feet. 
NEW HAVEN NURSERIES, Dept. F., New Haven, Mo. 
No. 8—$10.00. 
50 Kieffer P*ar, 4-6 feet. 
50 Montmorency Cherry. 4-5 feet. 
No. 9—$20.00. 
200 Apple, 2 year, 4-6 feet, first class. 
100 Stay man Winesap or 100 Rome Beauty. 
100 Jonathan. 
20 Montmorency Cherry, 3-4 feet. 
No. 10—$25.00 
200 Apple. 5-6 feet, select 2 year best Commer¬ 
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50 Stayman Winesap. 
50 Rome Beanty or 5U Winesap. 
50 Jonathan. 
50 Baldwin or 50 M. B. Twig. 
Write to-day for New Descriptive Catalogue 
with prices on a foil line of High Grade Nursery Stock. 
BUY SEED CORN OF HARRIS 
Hall's Gold Nugget Corn Yielded l 1 ) 1 ) bushel ears 
per acre in Chautauqua Co.. N. Y. it is a magnificent 
large eight-rowed yellow Flint Corn. 
New “Bumper Crop’’ Oats are the largest and 
plumpest oats we ever saw grown in this country. 
Ask for samples of these two varieties of cornandoats. 
Wc also raise Cabbago Seod and Vogolable 
Seeds of all kinds. If you want really good seeds— 
the best that can be raised—send for Harris’ Seed 
catalogue and buy direct from tho growors. In this 
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vegetables for market our Market gardener’s price 
list also. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO. 
—BOX 93- 
Coldwater, New York 
Harris Seeds are altoays 
tested 
